ATX Television Festival Announces First Round of Programming, With Amy Sherman Palladino, Graham Yost in Attendance and an 'Everwood' Reunion Planned

The third ATX Television Festival will take place in Austin, TX from June 5-8th, 2014. The fest consists of a weekend of panels with actors, writers, directors, showrunners and more, as well as screenings of classic shows, never aired pilots, current series and new premieres. Its success speaks to the growing interest in having film festival-style events and opportunities for community interaction in a medium that by its nature tends to mainly be consumed at home.

Patrick McElhenney/FXGraham Yost at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in April

The third ATX Television Festival will take place in Austin, TX from June 5-8th, 2014. The fest consists of a weekend of panels with actors, writers, directors, showrunners and more, as well as screenings of classic shows, never aired pilots, current series and new premieres. Its success speaks to the growing interest in having film festival-style events and opportunities for community interaction in a medium that by its nature tends to mainly be consumed at home.

They're still months out from the next iteration, but the festival has already announced its first round of confirmed series and guests, among them "Justified" creator Graham Yost, Amy Sherman Palladino of "Gilmore Girls" and "Bunheads" and writer and actor Paul Scheer of "The League" and "NTSF:SD:SUV." Here's a look at the list so far:

The ATX Television Festival will also hold its second annual Pitch Competition, in which aspiring writers and show creators have 90 seconds to pitch their idea for an original scripted series via self-filmed video. The 25 selected semi-finalists will be judged by a panel that includes Scheer, CBS VP of drama development Bryan Seabury, "Vampire Diaries" creator Julie Plec, Kyle Killen of "Awake," Cartoon Network's director of comedy animation Katie Krentz "Dawson's Creek" director David Semel and more. Ten finalists will pitch live before the panel of judges at the festival, with this winner received both a meeting with one of the judges to get notes to better develop the series, as well as a pitch meeting in front of one of the festival's studio/network partners to try and sell their pilot for production. Submissions will be accepted December 6, 2013 to January 15, 2014 here.